Link to the 1 gigapixel panoramic image: http://www.hdpano.no/gpweb/gigapixel_h_48/ZOpen_48.html
After you click on the link, click on the picture to move as far as you want to into it. Wait a few seconds while it loads. Then use arrows to navigate.
What is a 1 Gigapixel Image see Wiki
In Norway we have a Photographer I just call “The King of Furniture Photography”. His name is Karl Otto Kristiansen and he shoots for many furniture companies. He is so well rounded and good at many other kinds of photography both over and under the water. Check out his web page.
Over the years he has spent thousands of hours photographing and working on files and slides from this view of the beautiful city of Ålesund, Norway. I’ve had the pleasure on going with him to his favorite spot where these many exposures that makes up this 1 gigapixel image is taken. It’s a lot of preparations, he will call companies to ask them to keep lights on their building the nights he shoots. He once showed me where he put out generators with tungsten lamps to light up dark buildings and on and on. I guess we can say he is pretty much obsessed with getting the “impossible” picture of his city and he has succeded. He had wonderful pictures of this motive many years ago, but have kept going to get it just better and better.
The link under the picture takes you to the 1 gigapixel image and you can click and scroll way into it, look and see if people are home, who is out walking etc. Simply amazing and thanks to Karl Otto for sharing his amazing work.
You can find many more beautiful images and panoramic pictures by going to his website http://www.foto-kristiansen.no/
Here is a link in Norwegian from a newspaper article about it: http://www.smp.no/nyheter/article352330.ece
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